What can you do when you realize there are cameras everywhere? Maybe just dance. “Cameras Are Watching” is the fourth single off of Hardkiss’ album 1991. It features stellar vocals by Austin’s Tameca Jones. The downtempo, glitch-hoppy original from the album provides the jump off point for the variety of funky remixes here.

The All Good Funk Alliance remix brings a sunshine stutter funk to the party.

Gavin Hardkiss makes pervasive surveillance sound shiny, happy, and trippy in his remix; while Robbie Hardkiss’ Eyes in the Elevator Remix whispers acid, tech, and dub, but hollers house-funk. Robbie’s remix won’t be available commercially but you can get it here.

I made this tonight …
Thinking of all you’re going thru ….
It can’t be easy …
I know it’s not ….
A breath of humanity won’t help much in times like these so i took the pulse of the universe and this is what she told me ….

Each and every one in this together
Each and every one
In this together

“It’s Right (Global Family Remixes)” is the 4th single off the Hardkiss album release 1991. There are versions by a host of international artists from Africa, Europe and the USA including Stephane Deschezeaux, rAin, N’Dinga Gaba, Constar and Gavin Hardkiss.

Stephane Deschezeaux runs Springbok Records in France. Sprinbok is an amazing funk/disco label that is too good to be true.

Rain is an up and coming dj/producer from Mauritius. And will sounds like this, he’s definitely making something Hardkiss flavored happen on that small island.

N’Dinga Gaba is originally from the Central African Republic and is a popular house DJ in South Africa. I met him on a flight to Johannesburg a few years ago. He was familiar with Hardkiss and we spent the flight making beats and collaborating on a song.

In middle ’90s, the Winter Music Conference in Miami was a hit and run affair. One chance in the year to party with all the hot labels, djs, journalists and lovers of dance music who made the pilgrimage to the scuzzy sex n sun of South Beach to get some white label vinyl love and shake the hand of heroes. Hardkiss parties were a fixture. Intimate and away from the glitz, at a dive bar or out-of-fashion dumpy venue. We hit Miami WMC seven years in a row without cameras or iPhones. Just records and a few friends who conveniently loved music and wanted to stay up all night with us.

I remember who was in the jacuzzi as the sun rose. Between the fits of laughter, it wasn’t very flattering. Hallucination kids from Tampa, DJs from Back to Basics in Leeds and LA label honchos of the Moonshine varietal. I left a piece of my heart in Miami and Miami stayed in my tonsils for weeks after returning to California.

Couldn’t tell you who came to any of our parties. But I’m prepared to bet that it was a cross breed of early electronic music and house fanatics from around the world some of whom are now household names.

Here’s a vinyl DJ mix that I put together that brings me back to those times. This is something like what you would have heard at a Hardkiss Party at Miami WMC in the ’90s. Featuring Future Sound of London, Hawke, Rabbit in the Moon, Prefab Sprout, Electrotete, Tony Senghore and Chicken Lips.

Data Transmissions in the UK posted this DJ mix that I put together in January.

They say nice things like: “One of our favourite labels to appear in the early 90’s San Francisco label Hardkiss, which were totally unlike the banging techno and trouser-napalming proto-trance mayhem sprouting at the time.”

Flowers Blooming started life as a cover of Changes – Glow of Love and then became it’s own beautiful beast. Taking the lyrics from the verses, Robbie Hardkiss recorded vocals that sum up the mood in San Francisco during the early ’90s.

There was a convergence of people from all around the world. Something magical drew us to the City by The Bay at this time in a similar way to a generation before. Love was in the air and there was a tangible feeling that anything could happen. Park, beach and warehouse parties were magnetic in how they drew thousands of ravers. The music was a cross pollination of disco, house and funk. Glow of Love was an anthem of the times.

I thought it would be fun to grab pieces of the original Change’s version of Glow of Love and merge with another classic Inner City – Good life. Voila!! Here’s the Megamixx.